The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-28


needed to get anything like a supply from No
olesville for this city-about half million dol
lars in pipe alone"
Operations at Various Points.
WHAT is BEING DONE AT FRANKLIN
Special to the indianapolis Journal
FRANKLIN, April 27-Franklin has company
organized and incorporated for the pur-
pose of boring for gas or any other
available substance. E. w. Mcdaniel is presi-
dent of the board of directors; Ben P. Brown.
secretary. and Victor Smith. treasurer. The
contract for boring we'll has been let to the
Lima, O., Drilling Company, and the derrick is
now in process of erection. Boring will begin In
about ten days. Another company headed
by Robert Sturgeon and j. w. Ragsdale,
Is being organized to bore the opposite
side Of the town. If surface indications are to
be considered worth anything then Frank
I'm has every encouragement to bore
Gas is continually escaping from the driven
we'll at Mcdaniel Bros mill. and may be ig-
nited at any time W. S. Young struck gas at
the depth OF sxty-four feet. which flowed for
days at considerable pressure. and burned
brilliantly to the height of about
four feet until the pipe was driven
beyond the vein. This afternoon gas was struck
about half-mie from Youngs well, on the lot
of d. d. Waldron. Men were sinking drive
pipe when signs of gas were discovered. A
match was applied. and the flame shot up three
or four feet from the threench pipe. The gas
was struck at the depth of thirty-four
feet. New interest and impetus has been added
to the gas fever at Franklin. For weeks there
has been a perceptihle advance in the price OF
real estate, and transfers have been more nu-
merous and larger than for years. Business in
general has been affected.
GREENFIELD WANTS TO BE COUNTED IN
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENFIELD, April 27-The gas we'll at this
place reached depth of 400 feet this morning,
and is going down rapidly, at present. through
slate formation. AS the drill goes down the
spirits of our people 60 up, and the fact that
Greenfield is in a very favored locality was never
so readily conceded nor easily proven before.
At the east corporation line a number of fine
mineral springs, possessing miraculous curative
powers. This has been proven by analysis, and
all that is needed to develop here pleasure
resort aud health-cure of world wide wonder is
the touch of capital, aided by little American
push. The city will not be found tagging il it
strikes Trenton rock, where gas is. Nelson
Bradley, president of the Greenfield Banking
Comp any, tenders as free gift ten-acre tract
on the highest point of ground at the east cor
potation line for the establishment of orphans
home. The Masonic fraternity has the refusal
Of it at present 1t is believed this organization
Will accept this offer of Mr.. Bradley. Should it
do SO, it is practically certain that Mr.. B. will
hereafter remember the home in q most SUBJ
stantial financial way.
DRILLING AT LEBANON.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, April 27.--The gas we'll being drilled
here is the subject of intense interest just now
The drillers had reached depth of eleven hun
dred and ninety feet this afternoon, and they ex-
pect to reach Trenton rock before Friday morn
ing. The we'll is free from water, and there is
hnn fpt fohlr q oNs xrv,n
withstanding the great deph. This is explained
by the fact that Lebanon is the highest point
between Cincinnati and Lafayette, and is 1877
feet above Noblesville. It is expected that the
resources of the well will be fully developed
within the next forty eight hours. at furthest.
1t was not expected from the beginning to strike
the bearing rock short of ,237 feet.
THE wAINwRIGT WE'LL.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NoBLEsvILLE, April 27-The longexpected
fittings for the Wainwright we'll have arrived,
and Major Wainwright viii. apply the torch to
the wonder tomorrow night at o'clock. Great
preparations are made for grand jubilee. Large
crowds expected from the surrounding coun-
try, and excursions will be run from Indianapolis
and neighboring cities AID towns.
The Cincinnati Arch-A Reply to the State
GeoIosist.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis journal:
Prof.. Maurice Thompson takes occasion in the
Journal ard Sentinel, of Tuesday, April 26, to
critcise the position have taken regarding the
extension of the Cincinnati arch into Indiana
1t might, perhaps, be we'll to define the theory
that have advanced for he does not seem to
have a correct understanding of it. In the In
dianapolis News. of Jan. %, 1887, published a
list of the different places where gas wells had
been drilled. showing the elevation of the upper
surface Of the Trenton limestone above and be-
low sea level. In that article the following
statement was made:
I'VE believe that the facts just given demon
strate the pressure of an arch subordinate to the
Cincipnati arch, extending in a direction from
southeasv to northwest, one-half way perhaps,
across the State The direction of this arch was
again plainly stated in the News, of March %.
Mr. Thompson has certainly not read either
article very carefully or he would not have made
the statement he did, for no one has made the
claim that there is an anticline in Indiana
parallel with the Cincinnati arch. The anti
cline or arch of which he speaks is the north
western extension OF the Cincinnati arch. It's
extension into Indiana is a demonstrated
| fact.
| Soon after the publication of my first article
| on Facts About Gas" received letter from
| Professor Orton State Geologist of Ohio, in
which he suggested that the main portion of the
| Cincinnati arch in Ohio turns to the northwest
| ana enters Indiana AS Mr. Thompson seems to
| doubt that Professor Orion sustans the view
that l have taken regarding the extension of the
! Cincinnati anticlinal into Indiana, l will quote
the following from Professor Orion s late report
| on petroleum and gas:
1.-THE Cincinnati axis bears to the northwest
! instead of to the northeast as has been hereto
| fore held. The highest level of the limestone
passes from Point Pleasant, O., where it is about
| 40 feet above tide, through Clermont Butler
| and Preble counties into Indiana where it seems
| to be continued in a broad tract. The hines tone
| maintains itself above level as far to the
| northwest as Muncie and Eaton. Delaware
county. These facts to justify US in say
| ing that the Cincinnati axis bears to the north
west instead instead of to the northeast as it
| leaves southwestern Ohio. From this high-lying
tract of the Trenton limestone there is a north
easteriy prolongation off shoot that enters
! Ohio from Indiana in Mercer county, Ohio. and
! passes thence through Auglaize, Allen and Han
cock counties This has proved itself to be one of
the most important divisions of the formation
in northwestern Ohio and it may we'll be named
the Lima axis" pages 125 aud 1871
The Lima axis of Prof. Orton is known in In
diana as the Findlay arch In justice to Prof.
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